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What a fantastic photograph. We could tell you the mundane truth behind what these glasses really are and what they really do, but let’s not spoil it. Let’s just enjoy a moment of unadulterated imagination by staring at these electronic clouds, molding them to any purpose we like. [ladyada’s tea party via MAKE]
It took half a decade, but the T700 is Sony Ericsson‘s attempt at finally releasing a successor to one of our old favorites, the T610. The T700 has a 3.2-megapixel camera, stereo speakers, a “premium metal finish”, 2-inch TFT display, 512MB storage (with expandable storage), quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and 2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA 3G. Release date’s set some…
There’s a new exhibit at Coney Island that’s fun for the whole family: the “Waterboard Thrill Ride.” Greeted by Spongebob exuding “It don’t Gitmo better!” you walk in to peer through bars at dude in dark sweats leaning over another guy in an orange suit, his face wrapped in a towel. Slip a dollar into…
That’s what the Cleantech Group is reporting, based on details of a recent €50 million investment into Ikea’s GreenTech fund, used to finance research into consumer solar panels, green building materials, alternative light sources, etc. In the same way that Wal-Mart can basically fart one night and wake up the next morning having changed the…
Apple might never announce it, but fanboys will always dream, analysts will always schmooze and rumor sites will always report: The iPhone nano will always be with us, even if it never is. [Joy of Tech]
Internet-famous modder Ben Heck just completed a teardown of the new 60GB Xbox 360. And while Microsoft is only advertising the 40GB storage bump over the old 20GB model, he found that there is one notable difference which will further prevent the old RRoD problem. And it has to do with RAM. https://gizmodo.com/60gb-xbox-360-shows-up-in-a-nyc-target-5030219 While the…
If you pump this Rocket Iron Man until it reaches maximum power and hit the launch button, it will blast off until it reaches 40 feet, where the glide ejects and flies back to Earth, leaving the Rocket Iron Man to fall like a stone, probably on your head. The story of my life in…
It’s nice to think of our things as companions, witty, lovable creatures who like nothing more than to see us happy, ever-content in their role of servitude-lighting our rooms, holding our trash, you know, pretty much dealing with our shit. Just beware of the plunger monster. Last time we spotted him, he was colluding with…
Plug in this USB doll, set up your Skype, Yahoo or MSN client, and when your friends IM you, he hits himself on the head with a hammer. Feel free to tape a new face on him, so a relevant party receives the pain with each lolcat link that gets passed to you. You can…
The facade of China Central Television Headquarters is now complete, just in time to look pretty tomorrow, when the world turns its eyes on Beijing’s Olympic Games. The 6.45 million-square-feet complex looks as amazing as the original renderings, defying gravity with its two leaning towers connected by two massive sections floating in midair. Still, the…
We’re always on the prowl for the latest iClone, and this RAmos iMovie is looking like an…interesting…replacement for the iPod touch. Featuring a slim 10mm aluminum-magnesium frame, the T8 doesn’t seem to have multitouch, but it will play back RMVB, AVI, FLV, WMV, MPG, MP4, DAT, and 3GP on its 4.3″ WQVGA (480×272) display (or…
While this image may be doctored, I want to believe it’s real. What really wins this for me is the desperate tone in the review from the guy who actually bought the $999 I’m Rich iPhone application, saying the application is a scam: https://gizmodo.com/999-99-iphone-app-i-am-rich-probably-only-applies-to-5033621 THIS IS NO JOKE…DO NOT BUY THIS APP AND APPLE PLEASE…
This is a model of Shanghai as projected for 2020 by Chinese authorities. At 1,000 square feet, it’s perhaps the biggest model of a city in the world, and-for sure-the best place ever for two grown men to wear their Gamera and Godzilla latex costumes and fight to death. The gigantic dimensions and the detail…
If you thought those greedy mom-assaulting vampires from the RIAA or the BSA were bad, you haven’t seen their Brazilian cousins yet: they sued a shopping mall and its retailers for selling pirated software to the tune of four billion dollars, winning every single cent of it. Nothing bad with that, until they tell you…
The small Dutch town of Hengelo is about to test out a new kind of concrete paving slab that actually grabs onto the car-exhaust pollutant nitrogen oxide (a key smog and acid rain ingredient) sucking it out of the air and rendering it harmless. The special bricks contain a component based on titanium dioxide that…
The shiny brown machine in the photo there is apparently the top-of-the-range Eee PC S101 that was shown in Asus’ leaked presentation last month. It looks just a little bigger than the white 901 model next to it, and it will be about 0.87-inches deep, have a 10.1-inch LED-lit LCD, and have an Intel Atom…
Sony just updated its T-series of Cybershot digital cameras with the DSC-T700 and DSC-T77 models. Both have a 10.1-megapixels CCD, with Carl Zeiss Barrio Tessa optics, including a 4x optical zoom, the “smile shutter” and Bionz image processing engine. The T77, an update on the earlier T70, is apparently the “worlds thinnest touchscreen point-and-shoot camera”…
Nikon’s flagship P6000 point-and-shoot is official, and pretty much everything we heard. Besides long-awaited RAW support (not on Macs, sorry), the 13.5-megapixel shooter has built-in GPS geotagging, Nikon’s DSLR controls, manual pop-up flash (which is so fun to play with it’s almost worth the $500 price of admission by itself) and other pro-ish features for…
Okay, the S60 actually has two buttons: power and the shutter. Everything else is done on the massive 3.5-inch touchscreen, but a lot of the functions are actually automagical-auto-scene selection, one-touch portrait zooming, which automatically zooms in and frames a portrait, and an autofocus and exposure lock. The camera also comes with a stylus for…
Rounding out Nikon’s fall point-and-shoot lineup-feast your eyes on the headliners above-we’ve got four other pieces of camera newness: •The S710 crams 14.5-megapixels into a tiny body. Sounds like a recipe for noise stew, but it’ll do up to ISO 12,800 at a resolution of 3MP (maybe 3MP of white fuzzies, but still). The 28-101mm…